I was not present for this presentation because i left for the holiday early to avoid snow if there was any, but from various other peoples inputs it was a pretty educational presentation.
Intellectual Property is a huge issue in today's society. In the past it was acceptable and even encouraged to copy each others work. It was seen as flattering to have someone copy your work. With all the information out there nowadays its difficult to prove who developed what. I can see why it is a problem when it comes to paper-writing in classes and in journalism. When a teacher is testing your knowledge by giving you an essay, if it was written by another it wasn't really a good test of your knowledge.
Throughout history there have been those who make the exact same product that another company developed and became more successful then its actual developers. I agree that this happening is wrong in general. This is why the patent system is in place. While i agree with it for the most part, patent trolling is awful. People that withhold innovation so that they can gain lawsuit collection money.
The concept of open source is really great. Users can alter code to make it better but they sell it. This protects the original creators right to their idea while allowing motivated users of the product to make custom variations to improve performance.
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